gagerie

Updated: April 30, 2025

Evidently this rational advice was not taken, for it is repeated by Coutault in 1473. Redemption of the mortgages, "if your affairs can afford it," is the counsel given by the chamber of accounts at Dijon, though this sage board adds that they were well aware that in the previous month Monseigneur could not put his hands on a hundred florins to redeem one wretched little gagerie.

Ruth Putnam - Charles the Bold : Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477